Vegetable-preparing machine.



J. E. GLOEKLEB. VEGETABLE PREPARING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED AUGJ. 1916.

1,229,252- Patented June 12, 1917.

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VEGETABLE PREPARING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED Aue.1. 1916.

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APPLICATION FILED AUG. I. I916.

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JOHN EDWARD GLOEKLER, 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

VEGETABLE-PREPARING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1917.

Application filed August 1, 1916. Serial No. 112,541.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OI-IN EDWARD GLoEK- LER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vegetable- Preparing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to means for preparing potatoes and other vegetables for the table.

One of the objects of the invention is the provision of a compact machine in a single unit and of the direct connected motordriven type, constructed and arranged to expeditiously. and thoroughly mash and cream potatoes and other vegetables.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a machine of the character stated embodying a construction and relative arrangement of parts that will permit of certain elements being readily removed for cleansing, discharge of contents, etc., and as readily replaced and secured in the machine.

Another object is the provision of a construction that permits of the use in a practical manner of interchangeable parts, as when it is desired to change the machine from a potato mashing and creaming machine to a machine for reducing to a proper state such soup stock as peas, beans, turnips, tomatoes, etc., and vice versa.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the drawings,

accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure l is a side elevation of a machine constituting a practical embodiment of my invention.

Fig. 2, is a view, partly in elevation and partly in section, taken at. a right angle to Fig. 1 and showing the face plate of the gear-casing removed.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken in the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Fig, 2 and showing the upper receptacle, the mannor of securing the same removably in the frame, and the elements appurtenant to said receptacle.

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the lower receptacle.

Fig. 5 is a top plan of one of the interchangeable diaphragrns for use in the upper receptacle.

Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views of the agitators and pressers, for use interchangeably in the upper receptacle.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

As clearly shown, the lower section of the main frame of the machine comprises a base 1 adapted to be bolted to a floor or other support, a pedestal 2 on said base provided with a flange'3 -between the ends of which is a space 4 at the front of the pedestal, and a shelf-like support 5, disposed back of the pedestal. At diametrically opposite points the flange 3 is formed with trunnion-seats 6. In addition to the said lower section, the machine frame comprises an upper section 7,

' provided at its lower end with a flange 8,

superimposed on and bolted or otherwise fixed to the support 5 of the lower section. At its upper end said section 6 is provided with a rearwardly-extending shelf 9, and is equipped with a casingportion 9 on which is a removable face plate 9*; the said casing portion extending above and below the shelf 9.

Superimposed andsecured on the shelf 9 of the frame is an electric-motor 10, the armature shaft 11 of vwhich is provided, within the casing portion 9, with a pinion 12. This pinion 12 is arranged above and intermeshed with a large spur gear 13, mounted in suitable bearings within the casing portion 9*. Arranged at the front of and suitably fixed with respect to the spur gear 13 is a comparatively small miter gear 14 which is intermeshed with a horizontallydisposed miter gear 15 that is free to turn but is held against vertical movement in the casing portion 9% Splined in the gear 15 so as to turn therewith and be capable of moving vertically therein is a shaft 16. This shaft 16 extends through and is adapted to turn about its axis in 'a vertically-movable rack bar 17, and it is equipped above the rack bar with a collar 18 by which it is supported on the rack bar and is provided below the rack bar with a head or enlargement 19 in which is a socket 20, of angular form in crosssection. It will be manifest from the construction just described that the shaft 16 will be rotated while the electric motor is in operation; also, that at any time the shaft may be raised or lowered through the medium of the rack-bar 17 and adjustably fix the same in position. I provide'the short shaft 20, the pinion 21 on the inner end thereof and intermeshed with the rack bar, and the lever 22 on the outer end of the shaft and weighted at 23. When the lever 22 is thrown upwardly and rearwardly to a position slightly below the horizontal, the rack bar 17 and the shaft 16 will be raised and maintained in an elevated position, while when the lever 22 is thrown in the opposite direction, said rack bar and shaft will be moved downwardly.

At an intermediate point in its height the upper section 7 of the machine frame is provided on its forward side'with a horizontally-disposed yoke 25 to one end of which is hinged a receptacle-retaining lever 26, the major portion of which describes a portion of a circle. At its free end said lever is provided with a straight handle portion 27 which is designed to be seated in a keeper 28 at the opposite end of the yoke, with reference to the hinge, and to be forced into said. keeper and retained, in locked position by a cam-lever 29 mounted on the yoke.

"I preferto employ a metallic'receptacle 30 and to removably support it in the yoke 25 and lever 26 by providing it with a circumferential band 31 which bears on said yoke and lever. At its lower end, which is open, said receptacle is provided with an inwardly-directed flange 32, and on said flange and in the receptacle is removably arranged a foraminous diaphragm 33 in which is a central journal aperture 34. Extending through said aperture 34 is the lower portion of a shaft 35 which terminates at its lower end in a portion 36, of angular form in cross-section.' At intermediate points in its length the shaft 35 is provided with blades 37 suitable to mash potatoes and the like; and at its upper end said shaft is provided with a portion 38, of angular form in cross-section, designed to be arranged and held by frictional contact in the socket at the lower end of the shaft 16. Thus it will be manifest that when the shaft 16 is raised as before described, the shaft 35 may be drawn downwardly out of the socket in the shaft 16, after which the'lever 26 may be opened to permit of the ready removal of the receptacle.

Removably arranged on the pedestal 2 and held by the flange 3 is a metallic receptacle 40. The said receptacle 40 is provided at 41 with trunnions to rest in the flange-seats 6, and is also provided with a gate 42, and handles 43. In the center of the bottom of the receptacle40 is a socket-bearing 47, and in said bearing is stepped the lower end of a shaft 48 which bears agitating blades 49 and v is provided in its upper end with a socket, of

angular form in cross-section, to receive the lower angular, end of the shaft 35. When the shafts,16 and 35 are raised as before described, the shaft 48 can be readily disenpeas,

gaged from the shaft 35, and with this done the receptacle 40 can be tilted forwardly through the opening between the ends of the flange 3 to facilitate the pouring of its contents through the opening controlled by the before mentioned gate.

It will also be observed that with the shaft 48 disengaged from the shaft 35, the receptacle 40 can be entirely and conveniently removed from its position within the flange 3 and can as readily be replaced in said flange.

Inthe practical operation of the machine when the same is equipped as shown in Fig; 1, potatoes are placed in the upper receptacle and the electric motor is started whereupon the potatoes will be initially forced through the foraminous diaphragm and will drop into the lower receptacle. Here'the potatoes are whipped together with milk, butter, etc., added to the same with the result that a fine and fluffy mash of increasedvolume is produced, as is desirable.

"When it'is desired to convert the machine into a machine for reducing soup-stock,

beans, turnips, tomatoes, etc., the diaphragm 33 is removed from the receptacle 30 to give place to one of the diaphragms 33 with finer mesh, shown in Fig. 5, and the shaft 35 is also removed and in lieu of the same either the shaft 35 in Fig. 6, or the shaft 25 in Fig. 7 is employed; the shaft 35 being equipped with rollers 60 to travel over the diaphragm and force the vegetables through the interstices thereof, and the shaft 35 being-provided with a brush 61 and a cloth strip 62 to serve the same purpose with respect to the other vegetables.

It is to be noted when either the shaft 35 or the shaft 35" and one ofthe line-mesh diaphragms 33 are employed, the lower shaft 48 in the lower receptacle 40 will remain idle. It will be understood. however, that the vegetables forced through the finemesh diaphragm 33 will be caught and held in the receptacle 40 from whence they can be conveniently removed.

It will be gathered'from the foregoing that my novel machine is simple and ineX- pensive in construction, and yet is highly efficient when used either forthe mashing and creaming ofpotatoes or the reduction of the other vegetables mentioned. It will also be noted that the machine is susceptible of being expeditiously and easily changed and adjusted, and that all of the parts can be readily removed for cleansing and as readily replaced in working position.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

1. In a power vegetable-preparing-machine, a frame having a pedestal and an upright rising back of the pedestal and also having a recessed flange on the pedestal and an opening between the ends of the flange at the front of the pedestal, a re ceptacle arranged on the pedestal and within the flange thereof and having trunnions seated in the recesses of the flange; a revoluble agitator in the receptacle, and means carried by the frame upright and detachably engaging the agitator for revolving the latter.

2. In a machine for the purpose described, a frame having a pedestal and an upright at the back of the pedestal and extending upwardly from the horizontal plane of the pedestal, a receptacle on the pedestal, a receptacle disposed above the first-named receptacle and having a foraminous diaphragm at its bottom and also having a central aperture in said diaphragm, ex-

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner terior means connecting the second-named receptacle with the upright of the frame, a vertically movable and rotatable shaft extending" downwardly through the aperture in the foraminous diaphragm and having agitating means movable in the secondnamed receptacle, means carried by the frame for rotating said shaft, and a shaft mounted in the first-named receptacle and detachably engaged with the lower end of the first-named shaft and provided in said receptacle with agitating means.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN EDWARD GLOEKLER.

Witnesses:

KARL J. GLoEKLnn,

C. G. REINECK.

of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

